Re: [Templates] question: automatic entity decoding

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Andrew Strader asks:

> Is there a feature in the Template Toolkit (specifically, the Perl
> front end Template module) that will decode HTML entities in code
> snippets before parsing the template file?

Not that I know of such a possibility.

> The reason I need such a feature is that I want to allow
> non-developers to edit template files in Dreamweaver, and that means
> template files have to be valid HTML. For example, the code snippet
> [% IF count < 10 %] is not valid HTML.

I had the same problem when running templates for XML through a
validator (xmllint).  I don't know about dreamweaver's validation,
but xmllint can be fooled by simply reverting the comparison:
Just replace [% IF count < 10 %] with [% IF 10 > count %].
        -- 
        Cheers,
haj

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